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The financial technology companies supported by Wal-Mart are valued at $2.5 billion. The traditional banking industry is under threat. Wal-Mart is injecting more funds into its newly-started financial start-ups, obtaining a valuation of $2.5 billion for this company, and indicating its ambition to further set foot in the financial services industry. According to informed sources, the world's largest retailer is jointly leading the financing of more than 300 million US dollars with investment company Ribbit Capital. This marks a new valuation for the company named One, in which Wal-Mart holds a majority stake. Wal-Mart has been providing products to many customers and employees in order to gain a greater foothold in the field of financial services. For the financial industry, the threat of Wal-Mart and other companies encroaching on its territory is getting closer and closer. Just last year, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon mentioned the competitive threat of Wal-Mart and other enterprises, pointing out that its hundreds of millions of customers and huge resources at its disposal were "extraordinary competitive advantages".Google: The first device equipped with Android XR is made by Samsung and will be available next year.The Israeli army said that the Hamas stronghold was not attacked by humanitarian vehicles. On the 12th local time, the Israel Defense Forces issued a statement saying that the Israeli army had "targeted" the two strongholds of Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) militants in the south of the Gaza Strip the night before. The statement accused Hamas militants of moving along the route of transporting humanitarian aid in the south of the Gaza Strip, saying that the purpose of the Israeli army's actions was to make humanitarian aid safely reach the residents in the Gaza Strip. The statement stressed that the Israeli army did not attack the humanitarian aid truck. The official Palestinian news agency "Wafa" said on the 12th that Israeli forces bombed Rafah in the southern Gaza, killing 13 people. The medical staff in Rafah said that these people were protecting the aid trucks that arrived in the city, but they were attacked by Israeli troops.

African stock market | On Thursday (December 12th), the FTSE /JSE Africa Top 40 tradable index closed down 0.18% to 78,341.48 points. The South African rand is currently down 0.58% against the US dollar, reaching a fresh low of 17.8027 rand.Spot gold fell below $2,680 per ounce, down 1.38% in the day. COMEX gold futures fell 2.00% in the day and are now reported at $2701.50 per ounce.ServiceTitan(TTAN), a software provider, opened its US IPO at $101.00 on the first day, compared with the previous IPO price of $71.00 per share.

CITIC Securities: It is estimated that the reverse repo rate will drop by 40-50bps next year, and the LPR and loan interest rates may drop even more. CITIC Securities Research Report believes that the Central Economic Work Conference will be held in Beijing. On the whole, the policy level is fully aware of the grim situation that external pressure may increase significantly within next year, and has put forward a series of requirements such as stable growth, stable prices, stable employment and stable people's livelihood. From the perspective of fiscal policy, the amount of financial instruments supporting the real economy will be comprehensively increased, the government's disposable financial resources will be significantly improved, and the fiscal expenditure structure will be tilted to the marginal consumption of people's livelihood. From the perspective of monetary policy, the meeting called for the implementation of a moderately loose monetary policy, timely lowering the RRR and cutting interest rates. We expect the reverse repo rate to drop by 40-50bps next year, and the LPR and loan interest rates may drop even more.UN spokesman: UN Secretary-General Guterres pays special attention to hundreds of air strikes by Israel on several locations in Syria. He stressed the urgent need to reduce the level of violence in all aspects of Syria.In the first 10 months of this year, the number of tourists from China to Hungary nearly doubled. According to the latest data from the Hungarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, a total of 183,000 tourists from China arrived in Hungary in the first 10 months of this year, nearly doubling compared with the same period last year.